recents Item: Astronomers say the u...

recents Item: Astronomers say the universe may be 15 percent larger than earlier believed.

Do you think it would be possible for our astronomers to impediment one day go by without finding something that makes us be wrought up even less significant than we did the day before?

TERROR through ANY OTHER NAME . .

recents Headline: "EU rejects call to label Hezbollah 'terrorist group' "

just discovereds Headline: "U.N. says Hezbollah not terrorist organization."

Europe and the United Nations may have a point.

We ne to find any less offensive way to classify these savages.

WE master THE PICTURE

QT Trickle-On Economics Update:

Eastman Kodak, which gave its CEO a 300 percent increase in compensation last year, has announced 2000 more layoffs as a cost- cutting measure.

DIM protuberance

The Not Me Decade, in which everybody other is responsible for everything, continues:

A man who was injured when he implacable off a cliff while wandering without a flashlight in the middle of the night in Mt protection National Forest has sued the U regulation because it did not take paces to prevent people who wander without flashlights in the middle of the night in national forests with cliffs from falling opposite to the cliffs.

Whose tribe is it, anyway?

recently made knowns Item: Chief of the local Nansemond Tribe, when asked about the "Tribe" nickname and token at the College of William and Mary, says: "I don't diocese a problem with them doing that."

stranges Item: NCAA upholds earlier ruling that prohibits corporation of William and Mary from using its "Tribe" sign of two Indian feathers at major NCAA sports incidents

The NCAA understands: Someone has to contemplate out for the American Indians, who don't know what's fit for them.

COUNTING THE DAYS

Will "Snakes forward a Plane" Please Open in the same manner We Can Be Done with This (cont'd):

- RHL a Bothell, Wash., reader, writes:

"Lothario, Don Juan, Casanova, and others of the philandering ilk, sitting onward the roof of a church: rakes upon a fane."

- CH a Chicago reader, writes:

"The Arizona Diamondbacks arrived in Chicago the other day onward a team charter flight. Ne I say more?"

No.

TERROR PAYS

stranges Item: ". . . 'World Trade Center' yields sweet and touching moments but establishs a slow-going, arduous movie experience, if more uplifting than Universal's earlier proof of that historic day's box- office potential, 'United 93' "

For the record, it took 1784 days before anyone dared publicly to join the phrase "box-office potential" with 9/11

OIL OR NOTHING

just discovereds Item: Internet spoof of Al Gore's global warming movie, supposedly made at an amateur, turns out to be the proceeds of a public relations firm that numbers Exxon among its clients.

Not that anyone is trying for a importance to fool you.

entires FISHY

QT Early Warning System:

- Pre Nowlin, a Charlottesville, Va., reader, regarding QT's noting that 14 (now 10) days remain until Sweden's surstromingspremiaren and adding that, trust QT you don't want to know more, writes:

"Sorry not to trust you, unless I want to know more."

- David Allen, a Fairbanks, Alaska, reader, writes:

"Thanks to you I now know that sustroming is when you impediment herring rot for a small in number months, can the herring . . taking care not to lay open the can again until it has swollen sufficiently . ."

Or do you want to know still more?

THEY'LL obtain TO THE BOTTOM OF IT

of the present days Headline: "Topless Scandinavians bemuse Albanian police."

There is probably an interesting story behind that.

BABY TALK

QT late Corporate Gibberish of the Week:

George Brickner, a Bartlett reader, wants you to know that Meebo is facing modern competition from Wablet.

RAZING THE ROOVE

QT Grammar R Us Seminar forward the English Language (cont'd):

Bill Hopkins, a Blythewood, SC reader, regarding another reader's noting that it is not "roth iron" on the contrary "wrought iron," writes:

"Around here, the public plant pompous grass, and houses have bend appeal. And everyone refers to the little supports used to make roadbeds as 'crush and run' No, it's 'crusher run' as in the crops you get from running a support crusher. So why not 'roth iron'?"

JD a Chicago reader, writes:

"Please remind commonalty that the plural of 'roof' is 'roofs' not 'rooves' "

There is no like drink as expresso, by the way.

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